When María leaves, Eva tells Diego he has to take her back since she knows everything. Eva then goes to María to tell her to stay away from Diego, since Eva knows her secrets. María's reaction does not reassure Eva, and she goes to the police. While Eva is telling the detective what she has heard, Ángel's psychiatrist (Carmen Maura) calls the detective to tell him that Ángel has seen Diego and María in a vertigo trance, and that they are in danger. Ángel is able to guide them to María's house. Just as the police, Ángel, Eva, and the psychiatrist arrive, an eclipse begins and they hear a gunshot. María has stabbed Diego between the shoulder blades and shot herself in the mouth as they were making love. Viewing the scene, the detective says that it is better this way and that he has never seen anyone happier. Production Pedro Almodóvar said the opening sex scene between Assumpta Serna and Jesús Ruyman was unsimulated. When he was filming the final scene with Assumpta Serna, Pedro Almodóvar was not sure whether Nacho Martínez, playing the wounded matador who was about to make love to her, should graze her crotch directly with his mouth or do so with a rosebud between his teeth. Almodóvar tried it out himself. "I realized it was better to put some distance between the actor's tongue and the girl's sex," he said, during an appearance on a Spanish talk show. "I do it all," he added. Reception Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote, "The movie looks terrific and is acted with absolute, straight-faced conviction by the excellent cast headed by Miss Serna, Mr. Martinez and Mr. Banderas. Matador is of most interest as another work in the career of a film maker who, possibly, is in the process of refining a singular talent." In his book Almodóvar on Almodóvar, the director admitted that he considered this film and Kika (1993) to be his two weakest. On Rotten Tomatoes, Matador holds an approval rating of 92% based on 26 reviews, with an average rating of 7.3/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Intertwining murder and seduction, Pedro Almodóvar's Matador is a provocative thriller that will shock even the most adventurous moviegoers." References External links 1986 films 1986 thriller films 1980s erotic thriller films 1980s psychological thriller films 1980s Spanish-language films BDSM in films Bullfighting films Films